Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

OuSu5 W Ue ana never preEsEGln1 TO !
perfect, is five huudred TINES better tina
any otler institu ion tnat the world ey,
saw or ever dreamt Of. The highest hone
| ever had, and the highest homer | sh4
ever receive, and the highest honor [ ev,
want is to nave my name on her reccrt
as member. AZ Ter altars | repente,
AT her saCraments believed In her Sc
vice let me die. From her doors let N
be buried. O, Church of God
Thou home of the righteous
Thou harbor from tempes;
Thou refuge for the weary, Thou ligh
| house OF many nations. Thou tyne {
heaven, l could kiss thy very dust wit
ecstasy of affection.
For her my tears shall fall,
For her my prayers ascend,
10 hHr my tolls and cares be given
| Till tolls and cares shall ems.
"Perfumed smoke" says Solomon, i
the words following my text. Not lik
the fumes cOughed up from the throat 0
& stsamplpe, or poisoned with the case
OF chemical factories, or floating in blacI
wrath from the conf grafton Cf home
steads, or suiphurous from blaziug bat
teries, but sweet as burning grove O
] Si-AN--@'-4S4A - iASII u S-SSdlIA>, 7
| doors Of temple censor. ''Whu is tai,
that c"meth OUT OF the sYildcrncs5 lk,
pillars Of smoke, periu;dPfa.Rita. lnyrr5
and Lankincense:" Hear it, uieB anC
women everywhere, taat the Giyance Of
tss gsnuine Church Of CnrisaIeans peace
tof' asf' nathlns. y ~
Victor Hugo, N his hook eatitIed
NiHe1y-Tnree, says: ''Notnizg caImel
fhan smoke out nothing more startling
ihtre are peaceful SIN Jkas sHff There are
kevil ones. The thickness and the color
OF line Of sfaake glake the whole differ
ence between wdrsSahd pace, between
fraternity and hatred. ne whole happi-
ness OF man or his c9mplste misery is
sometimes EXPIRE ssed in this thin vapor
Whlcn the wind sCatterS at Nill.n The
great Frenchman was right, but | 90
fnrtlec and say that ss the kingdom of
God advances Ike pillars of smoke. the
black volumes belchlDg from batteries Of
war and pouring out from portfolios of
ships will vanish from the sky.
A distinguished gentleman of the late
war told me recently that Abraham LIN
coin proposed to avoid our civil conflict
by purchase Of all the slaves of the south
and setting them free. He calculated
what would be reasonable price tor
them, and, when the number of millions
OF dollars that would be required for
such purpose was announced, the
proposition was secuted, and the north
would not have made the offer and the
south would not have accented il if made
But" said my military friend, "the war
went on and Just the number of millions
bot
would have been enough to m4ke rea-
sonable purchase Of all the slaves, was
spent IN war, besides 6 the precious
lives that were hurled away in the 80
battles" In other words, there ought to
De some other way for men to settle their
without wholesale butchery.
The church of God will yet become the
arblter of nations. # the world would
allow 1t. it could to-day step ia between
Germany and France and settle the
trouble about AlssCe and Lorraine, and
between Russia and Bulgaria, and be
tween England and her antagonists. and
between all the other nations that are
lying So each others throats, and COM
maud peace and disband armies, and
harness for the plough the war horses
now being hitchGd to the emmuaitfon
wagons, or saddled fer cavalry charge.
That time must come, or through the in
creased facility for shooting men and
Glowing up cities and WhelmiDg hosts to
Instant death, so that we can kill q regl- |
nent easier than we could once kill
company, and kill brigade easier than
We could once kill a regiment, the patent |
)flces of the world more busy than ever |
n recognizing new engi.:ery of destruc- !
ion, the human race will after while |
20 fighting With one arm, and hobbllng !
With one foot, and stumbling along with |
me eye, and some ingenious inventor in !
pired Of the arcnGngel of all mis-
hief, VIII contrive machine that
will bore hole to the earth's |
enter, ana some desperate nation will
brow into that hole enough dynamite to |
low this hulk of planet into fragments, |
Iropping like meteoric stones on sur
ounding stellar Indications.
But this shall not be, for whatever else !
let go, L hang on to my Bible, which .
ellis me that the Dlacksmith's shop shall |
ct come to its grandest use when the .
warrior and the hus6andmsn shall enter
side by side, and the soldier shall throw
nto It's bank of fires his sword, and the
armer shall pick it up ploughshare, and
he stralghtest spear shall De bent into a
rock at eaca end, and then cut in two,
nd what was one spear shall be two
run:ng forks. Down with MOloch and
p with Christ! Let no more warehouses
ct out Of the manger where Jesus was
orn.
Pesce. Forever roll off the sky the
lack pillars of smoke from the MarengOs
nd Salamancas and Borodinos and Sc
ans snd Gsttysburgs OF earth. And
ght after them, roll into the heavens the
eaceful vapors from the chimneys of
Irm-houses, ami asyiums, and churches,
nd capitals OF Christian nations, and, as
lie sunlight strikes through these vapOrs
ley will write in letters of let aud gold
Il over the sky from horizon TO zenith:
Glory to God in the highest, and on
artn peace, good will to men," Then
It all the men-of-war fire broadside,
nd all the forts thunder forth resound-
lg volley, anG the earth be girdled with
le cannon6de over the final victory OF
lie truth.
While thinking Of these things looked
ut from my window, and the wind was
olently blowing. And l saw from many
limneys the smoke tossf in the air and
hirled In great velocity, volume after
plume, fold after fold, and carried on the
Tift wind were the great pillars of